On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hi Konstantinos,
That configuration change is nearly ready, but hasn't been merged yet and deployed to Wikimedia sites yet. (See the -1 comment.) We initially planned to launch tomorrow, but the site was down for a bit for unrelated reasons, and we ran in to some other small issues at the last minute.
The new GettingStarted version is out on English Wikipedia. When we schedule a new deployment window for next week I'll be sure to update the list here. That's when we will add it to that list of wikis. I also added a bit about this to Tech News,[1] which will go out next week I think as well.
Okay,
We're now planning to go out to 28 Wikipedias other than English, on Tuesday Feb. 11th after 17:00-18:00 UTC. That's astwiki, bswiki, cawiki, dawiki, dewiki, elwiki, eswiki, fawiki, frwiki, fowiki, glwiki, hewiki, huwiki, iswiki, itwiki, kowiki, lbwiki, mkwiki, mlwiki, nlwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, ruwiki, simplewiki, svwiki, viwiki, ukwiki, and zhwiki.
See the deployments calendar: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_February_10th
I should also note there is one issue related to several non-English Wikipedias, where some button text may cause wrapping of the GettingStarted overlay. It's https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61055. This kind of increased length of text in non-English languages is something of a perpetual problem. In addition to figuring out how to improve this one interface, I hope we can find ways to make our UI more fluid, potentially via something like setting different styles for individual languages.